Cable connectors for telephone wiring

I'm in a house that originally had telephone services supplied by NTL but
now has them supplied by BT. There are NTL sockets in the living room and
bedroom which connect to the incoming cable in a brown box in the cellar.
My plan is to connect the new BT master socket (living room) to the old NTL
socket (living room) and in turn connect that socket to the NTL socket in
the bedroom - in a daisy chain. Not difficult to do since most of the
wiring already exists BUT I need to join cable together without using a
junction box (there's no place for the box to go - the wiring has to be
inside the brown box). The existing wiring is joined using little IDC
plastic connectors, similiar to those used when joining electrical wiring.
Trouble is, I can't find these connectors or anything similiar anywhere.
Suggestions please.

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john

"Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what

A method I find useful, is to solder them. Find some sleeving which is
a good fit on the wire, push a short bit onto each of the wires, strip
a few mm. Lay the two wires to be joined along side each other axially
and solder, then just slide the sleeving over the joint. Finally serve
the joined wires over the top, with some tape.

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Before you do this make sure that you disconnect the wires which head
off to NTL. Just because those wires might not be connected at the
local junction box in the road doesn't mean that they might not become
connected at some indiscriminate point in the future - even NTL
engineers make mistakes!
I've done the opposite here - the place was wired for BT with
extensions in the bedroom and study. I changed to NTL, and in order to
use the BT extensions I had to cut off the links to the BT world.
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Yeah. Interesting wiring on NTL's part. The brown box in the cellar feeds
the junction box in the bedroom using 6 core wiring. All 6 wires are
connected in the bedroom but only four in the cellar. I've ended up drawing
a diagram so I can get my head around what to snip, what to connect, and
what to leave alone. First thing I did was disconnect NTL. It's interesting
that they don't have a master socket that delimits where the supplier's
responsibility ends and the customer's begins - like BT do.

--
john

"Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what

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